October 25 2012, Mickey Doft

Each week, the Global Poker Index releases a list of the top 300 tournament poker players in the world using a formula that takes a player’s results over six half-year periods. Jason Mercier is still leading the way as October comes to a close. For a look at the entire list of 300, visit the official GPI website.

The Top 10 as of October 22, 2012

After falling from the top 10 last week, Vanessa Selbst returned this week after a win in a $5,000 No-Limit Hold’em event at the Festa Al Lago series. She topped a 55-player field for $90,693. Also joining the top 10 this week was Mike Watson. He received a small boost as an aging score (first place in a “5,000 No-Limit Hold’em Turbo Six Max at EPT Berlin for “70,300) helped boost his Period 2 slate significantly.

Welcome to the GPI

Justin Young returned to the GPI this week and leads the 10 new players in this week’s rankings. Young earned a runner-up finish in a $5,000 No-Limit Hold’em event in the Festa Al Lago series for $61,353 – the same event that Vanessa Selbst won.

New Additions

Carla Solinas, David Bach, Dominik Nitsche, Ignat Liviu, Jake Bazeley, Jason Tompkins, Jess Yawitz, Koen De Visscher, Marc Inizan, and Stephane Albertini each fell from the GPI this week

Ups and Downs

The biggest rise of the week belonged to Ana Marquez. It wasn’t a recent score that resulted in her gain but rather in her cashing in the EPT Berlin Main Event in April. That result aged into Period 2, which only had two counting results. Furthermore, that aging score didn’t play a significant role in comprising her Period 1 results.

Biggest Gains

Anton Wigg took the biggest hit, dropping 112 places. Two of his cashes from EPT Berlin aged into Period 2, leaving his Period 1 with just one result.

Biggest Drops

What’s In Store?

The $10,000 Main Event at the Festa Al Lago series wraps up soon. Marvin Rettenmaier, David “Doc” Sands, and Matt Waxman each made the money and will see a change in his score. Depending on the outcome, there could be some solid GPI movement next week.

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April 08 2011, Jen Mason

The third day of play at the Spielbank Berlin brought the number of players remaining in the €5,000 European Poker Tour Berlin Main Event down from 119 hopefuls to just 24. Leading the field is Daniel Pidun with 2,429,000 chips, while ten players return with over a million. The next to leave the Main Event will do so with €20,000 in prize money, and by Saturday night the final table will be determined.

All 119 players returned Friday afternoon with the security of having already cashed and maybe this contributed to the early all-in frenzy. The first to be eliminated today received €7,500; the last person to fall short of Day 4 – Anton Thotatinsson – received €17,500. Cashing for the second time in a row on the EPT circuit was Team PokerStars SportStar Fatima Moreira de Melo who could not develop her short stack and joined Paco Torres, Jack Ellwood, Sam Chartier and Team Pro Sebastian Ruthenberg on the rail in the opening levels. Also finishing in the money were the top three players from EPT Snowfest: Vladimir Geshkenbein, Kevin Vandersmissen and Koen De Visscher.

In contrast, Maximilian Heinzelmann, who started the day in 91st place, clawed his way to second place (2,140,000) by the time the final hand was over. Anton Morgenstern also made a bid for the chip lead eliminating Felix Schulze in one of the biggest pots from early in the day, winning a queens versus ace-king flip to jump over the million-chip mark. He busted to Ben Wilinofsky late in the day, however, and Wilinofsky now sits in third with 2,046,000.

All the experience of a pro with a knack for the comeback did not stop George Danzer from exiting in 26th place after a roller coaster day in which the deck ran alternately hot and cold for the popular Team Pro. Start of day chip leader Fabrice Soulier’s stack also dwindled during his lengthy stint on the feature table, down to 890,000 as he prepares for Day 4. There’s no shortage of experienced players left in the field, although all prior EPT champions and all but two PokerStars Team Pros (Henrique Pinho and Joep van den Bijgaart) are now in the side events.

Among the players who’ve consistently been in the thick of the action today are young, aggressive Lithuanian Kristijonas Andrulis (1,650,000 chips) and Martin Jacobson, whose EPT cash list sports two runner-up finishes (both this season) and one third place. He’ll be looking to make the final for a chance to better this already impressive achievement.

After tables had broken speedily all day, the last stage (28 players down to 24) was a more contemplative, hard-fought affair, and the final table bubble could not help but raise the tension of all the players in the room, and slow them down accordingly. The pace was further slowed by the fact that “all in and call” has to be shouted whenever it occurs and the hands frozen so that their holders’ expressions may be captured on film for posterity. Meanwhile the heads-up, €2,000 and €1,000 events continued to pack every inch of the Spielbank.

Drifting into the weekend brings no rest for these 24 players. They return Saturday at 1 p.m. CEST (0400 PDT) to start the penultimate leg of the EPT Berlin Main Event journey: the climb to the final table. Join PokerNews for live coverage throughout the day, and check out the video below to meet some of the team behind the tournament.

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